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Sarasota News Leader August 30, 2013 "We feel Sarasota County's permit application was improperly handled [in 2008]," Herbert told The Sarasota News Leader on Aug. 26. The Aug. 21 meeting was an opportunity to make the case for DEP's reconsideration of the issue, he added. Although it will be up to the Sarasota County Commission to pursue the endeavor, state officials have indicated they are "open to scheduling a formal pre-application meeting during which specific elements of a proposed project would be carefully vetted," Sarasota County Page 38 Coastal Resources Manager Laird Wreford wrote to County Administrator Randall Reid in an email on Aug. 22 that summed up the meeting. Wreford explained to the News Leader that he sat in on the discussion "to be the eyes and ears" for the county as the delegation members talked with FDEP Deputy Secretary Jeff Littlejohn, along with a division director, a deputy division director and the assistant general counsel for the department — "just so we [could] be aware of what's going on." A 2006 presentation prepared by Erickson Consulting Engineers shows how the pass could be reopened with a Turtle Beach access channel. Image courtesy of Sarasota County